Tag: Hearsay
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Colorado Supreme Court orders 2 new trials where prosecutors presented misleading evidence
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed new trials were necessary in a pair of cases where judges allowed prosecutors to present a skewed narrative to jurors by omitting evidence that suggested the defendants had not committed the charged offenses. The link between Jacob Vanderpauye’s…
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Colorado Supreme Court critical of prosecutors’ misleading presentation of evidence
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday pushed back against the notion that prosecutors can paint a misleading picture of a criminal defendant’s guilt by shielding the jury from evidence the defendant did not commit an offense after all. In a pair of cases argued before the justices, the government asserted the state’s Court…